Cabinet for cooking appliances

Abstract

A cabinet for containing cooking appliances such as a microwave oven having a cooking chamber having a front opening, a door for closing the front opening of the cooking chamber, a locking mechanism for locking the door at a closed position, and a manually operated member mounted in the vicinity of the front opening of the microwave oven for manually unlocking the door locked by the locking mechanism is disclosed. The cabinet includes a compartment for containing the cooking appliance, a cover for concealing a space between the front inner periphery of the compartment and the front outer periphery of the cooking appliance, the cover having a recess formed therein so as to correspond to the manually operated member so that the manually operated member is positioned in the recess, the recess having a front opening, and a closure member rotatably mounted on the cover member so as to close and open the front opening of the recess.

What I claim is: 
     
       1. A cabinet for a cooking appliance including a cooking chamber having a front opening, a door for closing the front opening of the cooking chamber, a locking mechanism for locking the door at a closed position, and a manually operated member provided in the vicinity of the front opening of the cooking appliance for manually unlocking the door locked by the locking mechanism, said cabinet comprising: (a) a compartment for containing the cooking appliance;   (b) a cover provided for concealing a space between the front inner periphery of the compartment and the front outer periphery of the cooking appliance, the cover having a recessed portion formed therein so as to correspond to the manually operated member so that the manually operated member is positioned in said recessed portion, the recessed portion having a front opening; and   (c) a closure member rotatably mounted on the cover so as to close and open the front opening of the recessed portion.   
     
     
       2. A cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance further includes a door opening switch and electromechanically door unlocking means operated by the door opening switch so as to unlock the door locked by the locking mechanism. 
     
     
       3. A cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance includes a high frequency heating apparatus. 
     
     
       4. A cabinet for a cooking appliance including a cooking chamber having a front opening, a door for closing the front opening of the cooking chamber, a locking mechanism for locking the door at a closed position, and a manually operated member provided in the vicinity of the front opening of the cooking appliance for manually unlocking the door locked by the locking mechanism, said cabinet comprising: (a) a compartment for containing the cooking appliance;   (b) a cover provided for concealing a space between the front inner periphery of the compartment and the front outer periphery of the cooking appliance, the cover having a recessed portion formed therein so as to be caved in from the inner peripheral side to the outer peripheral side and so as to correspond to the manually operated member so that the manually operated member is positioned so as to face the interior of the recessed portion, the recessed portion having a front opening; and   (c) a closure member having two shafts so as to be rotatably coupled to opposite walls of the recessed portion of the cover, thereby closing and opening the front opening of the recessed portion.   
     
     
       5. A cabinet according to claim 4, wherein the positions of the shafts of the closure member are deviated from the center of gravity of the closure member to such a degree that a gravity moment acts on the closure member in the recessed portion in the direction that the recessed portion is closed by the closure member. 
     
     
       6. A cabinet according to claim 4, wherein the recessed portion has an engagement portion in the bottom and the lower end of the closure member is engaged with the engagement portion when the closure member is moved from the approximately vertical position thereof so as to fall down forwardly, thereby preventing the closure member from falling down forwardly.